nobody likes wasting money so Intel's pitch is a little confusing with our
state-of-the-art core I9 13900k you'll
get 90 of the performance at 100 of the
price wait What it's true though this
thing runs so hot that it is literally impossible to cool through conventional
means which is why today is going to be a little unconventional this used to be the
domain of only the boldest modders and tinkerers but now anyone can just pick
up a kit from ek's web shop and go beyond the Red Line This is a direct dye
cooler and with it you can drop your CPU temperatures by up to 20 degrees or so
they say all it takes is potentially killing your 600 CPU and definitely
voiding your warranty will R core I9 3900k finally see its full potential
will it even see tomorrow or will it direct die without passing go or
collecting two hundred dollars from our sponsor build Redux build Redux builds
fully customizable gaming PCs suitable for any budget pick your favorite games
and see how they perform using their online pc Builder head to build
redux.com Linus and create your new rig today
EK clearly knows me far too well number
69 of 100 and a hand signed note you
always do the craziest we have no doubt you will put it to good use absolutely
man this thing is gorgeous and it's more
than just a pretty face designed in collaboration with der Bauer the quantum
velocity squared direct die takes the guesswork out of removing the protective
heat spreader from your CPU and cooling the Silicon die directly before we can
do that I need to take our CPU out of our system just tested so we know how
much of improvement the direct dye cooler actually made that's going to take a minute so why don't we have a
look at the accessory package that comes with the quantum velocity squared direct
eye first up is a durbauer branded CPU
removal tool this isn't the only way to remove the IHS from your CPU but it is
by far the easiest we've also got some thermal Grizzly conduct a knot liquid
oil compound I'm not a hundred percent sold on going liquid metal on this
project but I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get to it a little spreading tool some Allen wrenches and
we've got a little foam pad this is critical because it's right in the name
liquid metal if it drips or leaks onto
something that it's not supposed to it can easily short and even kill your
system we've personally experienced that hey there it is look at that 3900k it's
time for your surgery buddy the directions remove the CPU from the
socket install the dilated CPU in the socket genius the CPU goes into the
deleting tool here all right then I'm
pretty sure it's going to be in the 13th gen orientation out of the box so we'll
just go ahead and put that in there start tightening this boy uh wait a
second no no don't worry oh I'm a little bit worried because there's a triangle
right there and there's a triangle in there and if you push it the wrong way
you remove capacitors we can just very simply check it we
don't hit those caps we're fine now all we need to do is
this always makes me extremely uncomfortable yeah I don't love this
step you don't eat it up or anything oh yeah do you no I am potentially one of
the people in the world that's delighted the most CPUs oh that sounded good did
it yeah that did not sound that good I don't like this Alex I think this is
wrong okay what about you don't do that what about you don't do that as I was
saying before I'm pretty sure that I'm one of the people in the world that has deleted the most CPUs because that LTX I
did hundreds oh yeah speaking of which we are going to have a CPU deleting
booth at LTX again this year so if you want to try it on a dummy CPU before
doing it on your own it's the perfect place to do it see you there or just do
it on your CPU there like that's what a lot of people did
percussive maintenance it's fine we're bringing out the big guns the heat guns
nah come on what the heck it does not want
to come off fetch me a hammer wait what are you okay yeah
debatable I don't love this oh yeah oh yeah oh
yeah okay wait uh well that seems pretty bad wow
Haha freaking finally it totally was the
silicone adhesive Roman if you're watching you might want to give her a
little more pull distance on this one just a touch more now I know what you're
thinking that looked awful oh and hey Linus you
said protective heat spreader why would I remove that okay that's a good
question and there are a couple of reasons first is that even for something
with high thermal conductivity like copper adding thickness adding distance
that the heat needs to travel is going to add thermal resistance second for
every material change okay like as we move from one into the next there are
additional losses in the heat transfer since it can actually reflect off the
surfaces of those materials so the
closer we can get our cooling to the heat Source the better which raises
another question really and that's why do Intel and AMD include these things
then if they make cooling worse and in
some cases darn near impossible well to
a certain point they actually help especially with air coolers it can be
better to spread the heat out a little bit from that small heat generating dye
to this large larger heat spreader so you can fit more heat pipes across the
hot part of the Chip And speaking of heat pipes the dye itself can get so hot
that any heat pipe touching it can end up boiling which is supposed to happen
but over boiling to the point where it dries out and stops being effective it
also is protective the dye is extremely
fragile and back before ihs's were common it was
pretty common place to see users accidentally crack them and then post
dead dye porn on the forums do you want
to explain that we're removing the stock mounting mechanism because obviously
this is you know what mounts it
I think you just did and aside from it being impossible to mount this thing
with the stock Hardware if we were to try to put our original cooler back in
here it wouldn't be able to reach it because
it's fine now let's chill it's a good thing that there's no IHS on there to
protect it this will go on here see and it didn't touch it see can't touch it it
can't reach there's the other problem of if it did touch it it would also touch
all of these capacitors in the past they'd get around the problem of your
cooler hitting all the capacitors and stuff by just making it super duper
small problem is though this right here is just not as good at cooling as this
and also you put a lot of different types of fittings in here and they hit
each other we're installing the die guard
um which involves putting the dye back into the socket yet again but not having
it fall out this time with these parts machined out to make sure it doesn't
bump any of the Caps or anything this little boy sits pop right on there look
at that that's how we're gonna hold the CPU in place now have I mentioned that
we make the perfect tool for these kinds of delicate operations the LTT
screwdriver has a strong magnet so you won't lose those little proprietary
mounting hardware pieces and the perfect
knurling for putting these things in
nice and delicately now this is another thing that is special about this block
instead of having a large contact patch on the bottom it has a small raised one
so that's going to help us avoid interfering with any kind of hold down or die guard product and EK says that
the fins on the inside are actually cut closer to the die to help with heat
transfer we also know that the density of those fins is extremely high here and
relatively low out here where they are really going to be doing that much now
under normal circumstances we just put a glob of thermal paste in the middle of a
chip and then we count on the contact pressure from the cooler to spread it
out not so here we absolutely need to
spread this out to cover all parts of the dye because even a tiny little air
pocket could cause a hot spot in a place where maybe there is no thermal sensor
and it could just fry itself into Oblivion going back to the whole IHS is
a heat spreader thing that only solves that problem seems pretty good to me did
we put this on now uh yeah oh this is so bad doing things
such that the camera can see it is so much harder than doing things such that
I know right all right well before before you go before you go oh yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah just to fill in any little micro gaps okay is it lined up I
don't know well can you look you're the one on the front
well yeah that's exactly what I can't see you can't see much over here too it
feels like they're threading did you guys drain the loop I mean a little
you're just gonna ah
yeah hey there we go all right success
yeah yeah all right so this goes on here
uh I'm sure you can make that work okay I'm kind of feeling this length
short now no dog do you think this is my first rodeo Oh my God
okay hey are we ready
pu installed F1 to run setup let's go
okay it's at 85 Degrees which is oh 64.
huh that's not good this should be
working very very well right now and it
is not the odds of immediate catastrophic failure are much higher
when you don't have an integrated heat spreader on oh well hold on second core
temperatures here we go it's an average of 29 maybe that isn't that far off okay
fine Roman suggested that we start by
doing like a single threaded cinebench or maybe like a quad threaded Benchmark
of some sort rather than hit the whole CPU at once but we're just gonna do the
whole thing I thought you're actually going to take
his advice for a second there okay so we've got a hot core I'm gonna stop this
yeah yeah we might need to remount it yeah this top P core P core zero went to
99 degrees immediately and actually P chord two is looking pretty bad too here
we go let's put on some more oh God
that's a lot I sucked up too much crap
okay that's pretty good let's go multi-core and
hello okay there we go that's more like
it this is quite consistent that's what we want to see also that's really chilly
69 degrees on the core maximum nice so
that's 11 degrees lower than stock but we also hit a much higher score so stock
was 36.60 or 36 600. wow really yeah we got
700 points just from running a little bit cooler okay well this is great what
next well we can just hit it with prime95 do an actual like
testes okay and cheese 89 degrees was
the max before after 30 minutes I know it's only been a few minutes but this is
really uh good yeah so it's been what five minutes now it hit its Max
temperature last time after 11. I just looked it up oh I
power is only 180 Watts well it's stock Just Pure Stock oh well that's boring
let's make it turbo more so our Max there was 61 degrees it would have
gotten hotter but at the same time not much yeah that was pretty good this is
dual triple radiators that water wasn't going to heat up much with only a CPU
dumping heat into it remove all limits boom Oh my God it's not hot at all
hottest core maximum 69 degrees again
nice so we just need to overclock it yeah
amazing it's Tamed
wow she's ripping harder than prime9 5 72. how many Waddy
watts is it drawing oh I'll check Max 2 3 is already still huh and 37 320 same
score overclocking time then but did we overclock with this
this is getting cold
yes okay are we going for a live swap here
all right you ready Alex with no uh oh we need to plug it in yeah
oh we need to move fast because we need to move very fast no water movement uh
this CPU is going to be getting yeah especially since just air in there pretty toasty we need our sketchy 240
volt cable it's been in zero videos okay
plugged in working on it hold on hold on I'm going to start I'm going to start a
load oh it's all at 100. oh it started oh I'm working on it start it start it
it's not turning on Alex why is it not the switch wasn't on hello
no I don't want to fry the CPU
there we go those fittings are not made
for that oh my God there's water everywhere David okay we did hold on I'm
gonna turn it off
um we need to do a bit of a fitting swap the good news is that so much of the
water drained out of the block that it's empty we don't have much time we're at
56 degrees on that CPU all right try
again yeah oh there we go there it goes she dropped this chills fast we're down
to 11 degrees right now we want to just run us in a bench and see how hot it
gets sure so 49 degrees wow 38 000
points without doing anything to it we've done nothing yet I have XTU open
yet but I haven't touched it I bet with how loud I talk my levels are probably
about the same as Alex's on his mic here we go this is a little bit safer I
believe okay it works 350 watts and 76
degrees nowhere near the limit this is working very well
41. so that actually took the six years that time I believe okay why don't you
give the other two core six then the P chores I mean let's try five nine and
six one yeah yeah we probably even give it More
Voltage oh God it was it was happy there okay one two five sure six two do you
think we can do it you don't have to three steps in one
wow that's a lot of voltage she's not
going to do more than 350 Watts for power limited for the first time
how'd we do well the bad news is I still managed to
hit 100 degrees on the CPU good news it was drawing 510 Watts at
the time this board will just give you power it
can draw like 700 Watts if you want what does that look like in terms of
cinebench then very fast extremely fast
it also is worth noting that that was with the voltages pretty high you don't
get any more performance after about 480 Watts this block is dangerously close to
condensation territory here oh yeah that's a rock solid six gigahertz on all
performance cores that is wild and like the temps are getting high
some of them are getting into the 90s but still reasonable 480 Watts yep
it's doing it now for funsies there's also a GPU
overclock it's just a little one you can't do too much because like you know
voltage limits yeah yeah if we were able to put like a voltage controller onto
that we could get a lot more highest temp I've seen 37 degrees so far wow fun
fact pretty much all gpus have no IHS so
they are direct dye cooled right out of the box that's uh for a couple of
reasons one is that an IHS adds Z height which would make your graphics card
thicker which is undesirable or at least it was until recently and number two
they're not meant to be user serviceable so there's very little risk of anyone
accidentally cracking their die oh and right three because again of size and
space constraints they want to get the best possible cooling out of these
things so going directly to the die is going to give them the best shot at that
they also tend to be larger so having just two heat pipes on it and drying out
is less of a concern they're a little less power dense this is stupid you hit
6.3 on a single core yeah it'll do two cores 6.3 6.4 dead in that
case I think it's fair to say that we are not thermally limited no we are at
the limits of this silicon right now to be clear we're not talking about going
deep deep Sub-Zero with liquid nitrogen or liquid helium or anything like that
the the physics of the Silicon changes significantly at those kinds of
temperatures we're talking within reason at the limits of the Silicon but we
might have also just got a package from Elmer Labs oh are you really doing that
get subscribed what makes this a CPU test is it just that it's really
simulation heavy or is that it's actually rendered on the CPU it's
rendered on the CPU yeah this is normally like 10 FPS we
can't set any records because that's held by like 64 core thread rippers but
that was like 4550 FPS yeah wow wow
that's actually a pretty bad run for this system we normally get more around
19 but we also normally get this message from
our sponsor bitdefender bitdefender is committed to protecting and improving
the online experience of their users all around the world they do this by
detecting and stopping ransomware adware malware and web attacks with minimal to
no slowdown on your devices your other apps won't feel a thing bitdefender
builds their Solutions with the user at the Forefront that means multi-layered
protection instant reactions to online threats and security for your personal
info and your digital identity with tools like a password manager and a
Wi-Fi security advisor you know bitdefender has your back if you want to
learn why AV comparatives called bitdefender security their product of
the year in 2022 click the link in the video description if you guys enjoyed
this video why don't you check out the time we cool the PC with fire actually
well liquid propane but who's keeping track it was bigger on fire how fast do
490s go there's clocks 2.52 okay we're at two seven four five
there oh okay very fast and at like 27 degrees
good boy